War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

All warfare is based on deception.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.